Southern Historical Association

The James A. Rawley Award is awarded to a distinguished book dealing with secession and/or the sectional crisis published over a two-year period. The award will be given at the annual meeting in 2013 in St. Louis, Missouri, for a book published in 2011-2012. Copies should be forwarded to the following committee members no later than March 1, 2013.

Dr. Edna Green Medford (committee chair)
Department of History
2441 Sixth Street, NW
Howard University
Washington, DC 20059

Dr. Paul Anderson
Department of History
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0527

Dr. Jason Phillips
Department of History
P.O. Box H
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762

2011 James A. Rawley Award Winner

Stanley Harrold's Border War: Fighting over Slavery Before the Civil War, published by the University of North Carolina Press, 2010

Past Winners

2007 - Eric H. Walter
William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War, University of North Carolina Press, 2006

2009 - John Ashworth
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: The Coming of the Civil War, 1850-1861, Cambridge University Press, 2008